Fence-post.



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f EENGE Pos1:l APPLICATION FILBDJIAY Z0, 1`9'05.

'3, Elea/mdb UNITED sTATEs -`EATENT CEEICE JOSEPH SCHNEIDER, RUDOLPH GnSCHNEIDER, AND FRIEDRICH C.

RICHMANN, OF DENVER, IOWA.

FENCE-Pos1',

No. 500,406. i

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1905.

Y Application filed May 20, 1905l Serial No. 261,356.

To 1f/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOSEPH SCHNEIDER,

RUDOLPH G. SCHNEIDER, and FRIEDRICH C.'

RICHMANN, citizens of the United States, residing at Denver, in the county of Bremer and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fence-Posts, of which the following is a specication.

v This invention relates to fence-posts of the artificial-stone type, and has for its objects t produce a comparatively simple inexpensive device of this character which will be eX- tremely strong and durable and one to which the various classes of'fencing materials-such as wire, wood, or the like-.may be eifectually attached.

Further objects of the invention are to provide an eiiicient form of attaching member which may be readily connected to or disconnected lfrom the post, to adapt the latter for either wire or board fencing, and to provide a simplified form of fastening member for holding the attaching member securely in position.on the post.

With these and other objects in view the invention comprises the novel features of con struction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter described. v

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a, fence embodying the invention, showing one form of attaching member applied to the post to permit attachment of either wire or wooden fencing to the latter. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing another form of attaching member for use with wire fencing applied to the post. Fig. 3 is a cross-section, on an enlarged scale, taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. v4 is a cross-section, on an enlarged scale, taken on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a detail view of one of the coupling members. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of one of the connecting members.

y tended transversely through and projecting beyond one face of the post and provided at their outer projecting ends each with an engaging portion or eye 5.

Applied to the front face of the post 1 is a vertically-extending attaching member or strip 6, composed of wood or other appropriate material, and secured inplace by fastening members 7 in the form of eyebolts provided at their inner ends with engaging portions or hooks 8, designed for detachable engagement with the eyes 5 and having their outer ends threaded to receive nuts 9, there being formed in the normally inner face of the strip 6 sockets or recesses 10, disposed at appropriate intervals and designed to receive the connected ends of the members 4 and 7. In order to apply the member or strip 6 to the post, the nuts 9 are unscrewed sufficiently to permit engagement of the hooks 8 with the eyes 5, after which the nuts are again tightened, thereby causing the `members 7 to draw the board tightly against the face of the post. After the strip 6 has been applied the fencing material is attached thereto, as seen in Fig. 1, 'the wires 11, of which the upper part of the fence is composed, being secured 'by staples 12, while the boards or rails 13, composing the lower portion of the fence, are nailed in the usual manner to the attaching member 6.

When the fence is composed. wholly of wire, as illustrated in Fig. 2, the line-wires 14 are secured, by means of coupling members 15, to a vertically-disposed attaching member 16, threaded through the eyes 5, the attaching member, which in this instance is composed of wire, being held in place in the eyes by a head 17, formed at its upper end, and angularly-bent portions or fingers 18, formed at its lower end. The coupling members 15 preferably consist each of a suitable length of wire bent in the form of a split ring and adapted to be applied diagonally is claimed as new-is- 1. An artificial-stone post having retaining members embedded therein, said members being projected beyond one face of the post, an attaching member adapted for application to the post and having recesses t0 receive the projecting portions ot the retaining members, and fastening members carried by the attaching member for engagement with the projecting portions of the retaining members.

2. An artificial-stone post having retaining members embedded therein, said members being projected beyond one face of the post and provided at their outer ends with eyes, an attaching-strip designed for application to the post, and fastening members entered through the strip and having their inner ends formed for engagement with said eyes. I5

In testimony whereof we aix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH SCHNElDER. RUDOLPH G. SCHNEIDER. FRED. C. RIGHMANN.

Witnesses EDWARD RoNAvITz, W. W EIDITSCHKO. 

